[H-GEN] customizing X

[The Fuzzy One]

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Michael Dooley wrote:

> However, when I edited my /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xdm/Xservers file to read
> :0 local /usr/X11R6/bin/X -bpp 16 
> to give default 16bpp, xv starts up, the image displays, the cursor
> flashes a few more times and the background returns to the default
> green.

	The default background for X seems to be a remarkbly annoying
black and white pattern, which most window managers are quick to replace
with something sensible.

An example is this line in Function "InitFunction" of my .fvwmrc"
        Exec    "I"     xsetroot -solid "#266294"      

	Which sets my display to a nice solid color.

	The trick is, that when you run xv to display the root image,
you've got a race condition happening.  Will xv finish first, or will
your window-manager's thing finish first?  If the wm finishes first, no
problem.  It'll display it's thing, xv'll display it's own and you'll be
left with what you want.  If xv runs second though...

	The easy solution is to replace the line in your window manager
configuration file (if you can find it) with what you really want to
happen, rather than make it a seperate process which runs in competition
with the wm line.

        fuzzy BSc.

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